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PLU ePass & PLU Email Posted by: shortea / May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 Now that you’re officially a Lute, the next big step is New Student Registration (NSR), where you get your get your fall class schedule. NSR appointments happen throughout June, but there are some smaller steps you need to complete before a) you can request your appointment and b) you can be registered for classes. We’ll share a couple of steps each week you can easily get done so that you’re fully prepared by the time you have

Musician turned math major is excited about teaching in his community Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 29, 2022 April 29, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing and CommunicationsKevin Canady-Pete ’22 has a history with the Pacific Lutheran University campus. He grew up down the street, just a couple of miles from the university. The Franklin Pierce High School graduate came to PLU intending to pursue a music education major. While he enjoyed playing music at PLU, he discovered he had a passion

,” said Alyssa Marie Adams, a junior on the trip. “This is probably one of the best experiences I’ve had.” It’s a view repeated by many of her peers and whether they knew it at the time or not, it’s why many of them signed up for Huelsbeck’s J-term anthropology course, which is in its 15th year. For many of the students who go on the Neah Bay J-term program, their reasons for signing up are similar – “I’m interested in anthropology,” “I wanted to learn about a place I knew of but didn’t know about

Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble to perform at Mary Bridge Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / October 27, 2016 Image: Flute Choir at PLU, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) October 27, 2016 By Mandi LeCompteOutreach ManagerThe Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble’s latest project is music to our ears. Flute Choir at PLU, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) The next concert for Pacific Lutheran University’s Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble, PLU’s flute choir, will have a small but strong

changing the way her students learned by building a program model from scratch. “Nobody’s teaching psych nurse practitioners in their curriculum like we are (at PLU),” Moller said. “Rather than interspersing therapy courses with assessment, diagnosis, and psychopathology, I wanted to approach the curriculum in the same way we do it in practice.” When an ARNP first meets a patient, they have to figure out what’s wrong (complete a thorough psychiatric diagnostic evaluations), then come up with a

which she’ll graduate this summer. Recently, the Washington Association for Marriage and Family Therapy named her the 2008 Student of the Year, an honor given to only one student in the state. “It’s pretty humbling,” Montgomery said. Selected by her peers and professors, the nomination letter hailed Montgomery’s academic excellence, clinical abilities, leadership skills and unique contributions to the program, including promoting multiracial issues, her compassion and her ability to make others feel

crazy because I wrestle with what to do with my life,” he said. “It was reassuring to see other people who are having the same struggle. I came away inspired.” At the conference, he was reassured to find other students actively seeking out their calling. Many of the speakers spoke to the topic as well, and Siburg said a speech by Charles Stith particularly inspired him. An ordained minister, Stith heard a call beyond the pulpit. He left the ministry and got involved both politically and socially

lunches.” Creating options every day was no easy task. Especially for the Gradwohl’s youngest son, Major, who suffers from Celiac disease, an intolerance to gluten. Gradwohl began seriously thinking about convenient alternatives to packing lunches every day. Fantazimo Foods was the solution. In partnership with the Seattle catering firm Gretchen’s Shoebox Express, parents can order lunches online by 4 p.m. and lunches will be delivered to schools and camps the next day. Fantazimo currently offers

Zika. I think it is something that people are going to be looking into for many, many years.” For now, she will continue to do important field work, something she says keeps her connected to people in her community. She is working with her boss to develop a surveillance project for the Aedes albopictus (Asian Tiger) mosquito in Atlanta starting this summer, prompted by the concern over the spread of Zika and Chikungunya, another viral disease. “It enables us to look into what are the local

New economics mentorship program eases classroom-to-career transitions for PLU students Posted by: Marcom Web Team / September 26, 2019 September 26, 2019 By StaffMarketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 25, 2019) — The academic rigors of higher education provide a rich, well-rounded foundation for students preparing for a professional career. Sometimes, however, it’s the reassuring helping hand of an experienced mentor that best smooths the ensuing transition from classroom to the